At least 21 dead after fires in Greece

The official number of fatalities caused by the fires that raged in Greece since last Saturday it has risen this Friday to 21, after the firefighters found the lifeless body of a person in the national park of forest of Dadiain the Evros region, close to the border with Türkiye.

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According to the Helena public television ERT, the Fire brigade reported today that the body was found on Thursday in a state of decomposition and will be subjected to a forensic analysis.

The authorities consider it probable that it is a immigrant who entered irregularly, crossing the river evrosborder with Türkiyeand then he was unable to escape the flames that trapped him in the forest where he would have taken refuge.

His tragic fate would be added to that of 18 other alleged refugees -16 adults and 2 minors- whose charred bodies were found in the same forest last Tuesday, in the vicinity of a cabin in an area near the port city of Alexandroupolis.

A day earlier the burned body of a man had been found in another nearby forest, while in the region of Boeotiain Greece Central, a rancher was killed by heavy smoke from another fire while trying to save his animals.

So far there has not been confirmation official of the death of nine other alleged immigrants on which several Greek media reported last Tuesday.

A total of 79 people have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the provocation of firesdeclared this Friday to ERT the government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis.

Strong gusts of wind, a great drought and a prolonged heat wave with temperatures around 40 degrees have led to hundreds of fire fronts throughout the Hellenic territory.

Currently, the largest foci are, in addition to the one located in the surroundings of Alexandroupolisin the northeast of evrosthe one from the island of Euboea and that of Mount Parnitha, northwest of Athens.

Firefighters reported a clear improvement in Parnitha thanks to the softening of the winds, which has allowed the flames to be contained and the situation in that focus, one of the three largest in the country, to be kept almost under control.

Instead, the flames continue to get out of control in evrosin one of the most destructive fires on record in the European Union (EU), according to the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic.

The region of evros It is the hardest hit with a burned area of ​​72,344 hectares up to August 22, according to data provided to EFE by the National Forest Fire Observatory.

Source: Elcomercio

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